Sunday, March 20, 2016

Defend yourselves from bad destiny before bad destiny defeats you

Both text, Wonder by R.J. Palacio and Titanium by David Guetta, share the idea that people get up after every single fall, and that we all have the inner strength and being strong ourselves. In the book Wonder, one of the themes is to defeat yourselves independently. The song Titanium explains that you might be defeated but you are never always defeated, and nothing will stop people from stepping to the right direction. This makes me think in both texts that you have to stand firm on the ground, and fight for your own right, and defeat yourselves to do the right thing, even if everybody else is doing the wrong thing, different than what you are doing.
Both text shows the theme of standing up for yourselves, and defeating yourselves to do the right thing. The difference is that the composer for Titanium uses metaphors and symbols to explain the situations. A few of the symbols are the bullet and gun, one of the metaphor is “Stone heart, machine gun, firing at the ones who run.” In the book “Wonder”, the author uses 1st person to tell the story of August’s life, but using multiple points of view to explain the story, and how people have so much to tell and conceal. One evidence is at part 3, where Summer gave Jack a hint why August is mad at him. ‘“Bleeding scream” I whispered at his ear, and then walked away.’ This builds suspense and got the readers predicting when will Jack realize what he has done.

In real life, people get up after every single fall, no matter what is the situations. Everybody will get up after they fall, physically and/or emotionally, no matter what the situation is. In the book ‘Wonder’ by R.J.Palacio, one of the main themes of the story is that people will never always be the lowest. People will rise in different areas and do better in other areas that people at the top might not get. In the song ‘Titanium’ by David Guetta, one of the main themes of the song is that nobody will be falling forever, but bits where they will stand up for what they believe in.
At pg 266, which is one of the climax of the story, the author explains that people get up, even if the situations is people fighting because of your face, people learn to deal with it and fight back of what is correct, getting up after they fall.
In the song Titanium, the quote: “You shoot me down, but I get up.” This quote explains that people get up after they are defeated, and they will never be forever defeated.
“I’m criticized but all your bullets ricochet.” This quote explains that people will never be shot down forever, using the gun as a metaphor. The composer let the readers understand that anything can bounce back if you don’t deserve to be hit etc.
“You shoot me down, but I wouldn’t fall” This quote explains that people will not fall for something that they didn’t do, for something they are innocent at. 

People to defend themselves through tough situations, easy or difficult. People hate losing, especially if it is something they believe in, or something that is right. In the song ‘Titanium’, one of the other main themes is that people defend what they believe, defend what they think it’s correct, without any hesitations, guilt or sorrow. In the book ‘Wonder’, the author explains that people defend themselves and do what is right, defeat the idea of what is wrong. In the book ‘Wonder’, the author uses a slightly older man to defeat the young mean boys. “yo, listen up. don’t mess with jack, i say really slowly, gritting my teeth, my voice all clint eastwood tough-guy. Mess with him again and you will be very, very sorry. and then i tap my fiddle case for effect.” This quote explains that people defend of what they think it is right.
In the song Titanium, the composer explains that people do not necessarily need to take the mean people’s words seriously, but its good to listen so you have your argument to defend what you believe. “You shout it out, but I can’t hear a word you said.” The composer explains that you don’t have to listen to what they are saying, you don’t necessary have to listen to the cruelty of everybody else.
“Cut me down, but it’s you who have further to fall.” This quote explains that people who are accusing you for nothing are the ones who will suffers the most.
In the book ‘Wonder, the author explains that there will always be somebody for you, somebody with you to go through life, whether is the same person or not, whether it is a group or not, there will always be somebody there with you to go through life together. 
At pg 217 - 218, the author explains that August defended himself despite of his face, and explaining that Via has no right to not let August go, just because of his face.
At pg 266 - 267, everybody defended August like a friend, even if they didn’t really know him. Everybody started to defend him as he was one of them.

In real life, people will never be alone, even if it’s through tough situations, people will never forever fall. Both texts share the idea that people get up after every single fall, and that we all have the inner strength and being strong ourselves. Both texts teach us that we will never fall forever, we will get up, and that we will defend ourselves to what we believe in and what we know. Both authors was inspired by people getting up after failing, and that people defend themselves through tough situations, easy or hard.

1 comment:

  1. Good Job on the lead, it is well crafted and the claim is fitted into the lead very well. Your evidence connects back to the claim which is good so that the evidence makes sense when you read it. You just need to work on weaving your analysis into the paragraph.

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